[11367] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.6G: date
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Fri Nov 12 21:59:47 1993
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 93 21:59:41 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
System name: podge
Type and version: KN02ca 7.6G (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: PMAG-DV
What were you trying to do?
Figure out what format string acts like "date" by default.
What's wrong:
-u and +%Z interact wrongly:
<8> podge:~> where date
/bin/date
<9> podge:~> date -u +%Z
EST
GNU date works fine:
<10> podge:~> where gdate
/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/gnu/bin/gdate
<11> podge:~> gdate -u +%Z
GMT
What should have happened:
DEC should try to not screw up the simple things.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
man date
